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Maine 4-Season Greenhouse Grow
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Happy May Day!
We've had good weather last few days so have been busting ass at the Farm and the Cabin. Pics later.
We've had good weather last few days so have been busting ass at the Farm and the Cabin. Pics later.
Dang Blew....I need to reach out to any local places and see if I can find some place like this near me. I could use a few hundred pounds of it easily!Gotta love it when a plan comes through....it's raining cats and dogs here so it was a good day to connect with the granite company...very impressive place, millions of $ of stone and equipment....they basically said a rainy day wasn't ideal, but since I was there might as well go for it. I had several sizes containers (up to a 100 gallon stock tank) in my trailer ...wasn't sure how the deal worked...they said they just had a dump truck pick up a load (they got charged $15 total!) and that was headed to Portland...probably a larger composting or farming operation. They were concerned their excavator scoop was too big for my 100-gallon tank and said DEP would have their ass if I was driving down the road slopping all over the road. I didn't want to burn any future bridges so I said "what's easy for you today" and they said "does this work for you"...it was their "flaming station" where they burn the granite and pieces flake off (made me think of @bobrown14 and burning his granite dust...they did it for me)...a bit coarser than the other slurry (which was like a paste) and I was like hell yes...I grabbed some smaller buckets and my shovel and got about 150 lbs.....I would have got more but the yard guy had to monitor me (liability) and it was pissing rain and I felt bad for him....plus he said I could always get more later. Also asked if they use any lubricants or chemicals and he said nope, just a straight water saw...also said they got a lot of MOFGA (organic) farms coming there so it's legit....so, I'm done buying glacial rock dust! I kept thinking on the drive back...who do I know that owns a dumptruck?!
FUN FACT: A cubic foot of granite weighs 165 lbs!
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Well, it was worth someone's time to send a dumptruck from 2.5 hours away. I'm going back when it's dry for a week...apparently granite dust gets much heavier when its wet
How we do it at the cottage. Build a hot fire on top of the granite - burn our brush and old wood logs and when the ashes cool there's potash and granite dust. Yah it just flakes off we get a fair amount of granite dust that way. Brush the ashes and the dust up and into a bucket toss in the garden.
Best of both worlds. At the cottage we dont have close access to soil or compost. We have to get a little crafty. There are (peat) bogs tho a shit ton of em. Go boating and scoop up some fresh bogs with bucket and into a cement tray on the boat.
Mix all that together with the potash and the granite dust . We should have a nice garden this summer. Maybe try making some fish crappy stuff or plant a fish! Never tried that but herd of it.
LOTS of rain in Ontario this spring along with a lot of snow and thick ice. Recipe for disaster.
We still have docks woot!
My dad puts fish in the veggie gardens... and my bro plants a fish under his girls. That fish is gone by fall, bones and all
I tried putting a fish in my hole and the plant died and when checked the hole was full of maggots. 
burp... ahem ... I hate flies. Did I mention I hate flies. All of em.
Maggots do good work for sure... just not really that interesting to me! My wife likes to use them for bait.
I'm like, sorry hun no touchy me on the maggots.
Maggots do good work for sure... just not really that interesting to me! My wife likes to use them for bait.
I'm like, sorry hun no touchy me on the maggots.
That makes 2 of us
Maggots are almost as bad. But its a very fine line. Depends on what the maggots are eating I suppose.
ahem ... ahem. burp
ahem ... ahem. burp
I’m almost immune to the site of them. Growing up fishing and hunting.
Yeah how about a pig roast in the summer time! Yum
Keep the fire burning.
Keep the fire burning.
Nothing better or not much anyway!
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One summer as a teenI worked on a trash truck...trash bags full of meat roasting in the sun were full of maggots...you could hear them before you smelled them...being the new guy, they told me to make sure the compactor went full compression...duh...bags exploded and I stood there covered head to toe in maggots...nasty, nasty, nasty.
I worked in a food packaging plant, and the freezer turned off in Friday night. We went in to clean and sanitize on Saturday and they would be all through the freezer where dinners would fall of the line. All over the walls and ceilings.
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so nasty
It was for real!
I was a stern man on a lobster boat for awhile. Hate the maggots more than the smell!
So, how does your garden grow, y'all? I have a few seeds above ground. I found a strain "Mobsta", a cross of "Moose and Lobsta" Bred for our climate here in Bar Harbor. Have a few regular seeds. Then I found some seeds from a gentleman in the hydro store was giving away to gain some customers. They're called Deebo Skunk. Will put them in the ground in about 2 weeks. Looking good.
So, how does your garden grow, y'all? I have a few seeds above ground. I found a strain "Mobsta", a cross of "Moose and Lobsta" Bred for our climate here in Bar Harbor. Have a few regular seeds. Then I found some seeds from a gentleman in the hydro store was giving away to gain some customers. They're called Deebo Skunk. Will put them in the ground in about 2 weeks. Looking good.
Sounds cool, I’m guessing you have a really fast grow season.
I'm still learning about the grow season. Harvesting a little later, planting a little earlier, finding mold resistant strains, etc. Yeah, our growing season is shorter than many, but I'm learning to handle it better. Cheers